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Should I Worry That My Child's Best Friend Is Make Believe?

Should I Worry That My Child's Best Friend Is Make Believe?

Lisa Belkin  02. 7.2012
Plosheye was my brother's best friend and the two would talk by phone for hours, while my parents watched, and grinned. Once in awhile...
M.I.A.'s Only Malfunction Was Us

M.I.A.'s Only Malfunction Was Us

Ann Brenoff  02. 6.2012
Is tossing out a cuss word just an easy way to show the world you really aren't a baby anymore? Or is it an insidious slippery slope on...
How To Get Kids To Eat (And Even Enjoy!) Their Vegetables

How To Get Kids To Eat (And Even Enjoy!) Their Vegetables

02. 6.2012
Dear Susan, My step-children, five and seven years old, refuse to eat the healthy food I put on their plates. Their mother doesn't care...
10 Signs Your Kid Is Way Too Busy

10 Signs Your Kid Is Way Too Busy

Maria Lin  02. 5.2012
The epidemic of overly-scheduled kids has caught the attention of educators, doctors and child psychologists over the past few decades....
Whose Birthday Party Is It?

Whose Birthday Party Is It?

Betsy Brown Braun  02. 2.2012
Birthday party themes used to be age appropriate. The ante keeps getting upped, and the emphasis is no longer on the child and his birthday....
My Kids Stole My Ambition

My Kids Stole My Ambition

Dani Klein Modisett  02. 2.2012
I was voted most likely to succeed in ninth grade. Now, I don't want to be excessively self-deprecating and assert that it's been all down...
Why

Why "Ritalin Gone Wrong" Is Wrong

Dr. Harold Koplewicz  01.31.2012
The piece, by L. Alan Sroufe, a psychology professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, was such a broad assault on what we know...

Ritalin Gone Wrong

01.30.2012
THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply...
Backyard Boys

Backyard Boys

Janell Burley Hofmann  01.29.2012
Long before leadership courses, sensitivity training, and peer counseling, if you'll remember that you learned fairness, justice, and teamwork...
Horrifying Find In Boy's Juice Box

Horrifying Find In Boy's Juice Box

01.27.2012
A 10-year-old boy took a sip of his Capri Sun last week expecting a fruity thirst quencher to come through that yellow straw. Instead,...
Even Monkeys Can't Escape 'Boys Like Trucks, Girls Like Dolls' Gender Identity

Even Monkeys Can't Escape 'Boys Like Trucks, Girls Like Dolls' Gender Identity

01.27.2012
Are gender roles in-born, or are they imprinted upon us? Science blogger Paul F. Norris went searching for answers in the scientific literature...
I Did These Things as a Kid, But My Kids Won't

I Did These Things as a Kid, But My Kids Won't

Amber Dusick  01.27.2012
Are parents as a whole more protective these days? And where is the line drawn between good protection (seat belts and not letting your...

"No Really! We'll Do the Sleepover Here! (So YOU Can Have Date Night!) (VIDEO)

Laura Zigman  01.27.2012
The kids are out. The "expectation" of date night looms! OR: Insist on always having the kids' sleepovers at your house.
A Mountain I'm Willing To Die On

A Mountain I'm Willing To Die On

Glennon Melton  01.26.2012
"Kids these days, they can be so cruel." But I think this is just a phrase we toss around to excuse ourselves from facing the truth. Because...
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